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Continue reading →: dev: 1Password cli only works onlineWell, I’ve been having fun with developer tools for the past week, so documenting some of them before I descend (yet again!) into the depths of patent writing hell. 1Password CLI Well, 1Password is making some great improvements as they evolve from an influential end user store you passwords into…
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Continue reading →: ai: OpenWebUI Missing Mac Manual with Ollama and ComfyUI notes v1.8 2025-03-18Well, Open WebUI is an incredible project that provides a nice graphical front end for local AI development, but the documentation is lacking. You can figure some things out by looking at the documentation, but mainly it is trial and error. So here are my notes for using the various…
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tel: T-Mobile to US Mobile porting and Warp to Darkstar transfer
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Continue reading →: tel: T-Mobile to US Mobile porting and Warp to Darkstar transferWell, we are about half T-Mobile and half US Mobile now and here are some things to know. When you are porting, make sure you figure out turning off porting protection. Transferring between networks One cool thing is that you can pick Verizon (Warp), AT&T (Dark Star) and T-Mobile (Lightspeed).…
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Continue reading →: gw: Adding aliases with Google Workspace
I don’t really know why they’ve made this so incredibly hard, but if you have a startup and want to save a little cash, you can forward rich@coolstartup.com to rich@gmail.com and all your mail there arrives in Gmail and you don’t have to pay for an additional account. The setup…
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Continue reading →: cell: Transfer T-Mobile One to US Mobile Unlimited Flex
This was a hard decision, but thanks to Mike at T-Mobile, we had a nice plan which was basically $30/month with unlimited data in the US. However as T-Mobile One degraded (first we lost unlimited data roaming so it is only 2G roaming, then it was capping of bandwidth, then…
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Continue reading →: life: Credit Card Recommendations
One of the great life hacks at least in the US is figuring out what credit cards you should have. Getting a credit card early (and never using it) is one of the easy ways to get to the magical 800+ credit card rating, so here are some recommendations (by…
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Continue reading →: dev: 1Password lockout and asdf direnv get out of Jail CardHappy New Years everyone, some quick notes on things I’ve fixed in the last two days. Nice to really clean things up. If you lose your 1Password Well, Paul lost access to his 1Password (brand new) and also to a 2FA’ed Google Workspace. Here are the notes about how this…
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Continue reading →: tech: Cool things Brompton C-line and ZWO Seestar S50Well, it’s holiday time and some things to keep an eye on. We got a Brompton bicycle over the summer (thinking we would need it at Burning Man, but sadly didn’t go). Anyway, it’s an awesome bicycle and Amex right now has a $300 off if you spend $1500 at…
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Continue reading →: sw: Passport Photos Redux and OBS Screen capture and Mac Compressor 10008 Error fixesOK, the last 12 hours have featured lots of frustrations. Basically, we needed to get a passport photo taken and in the past its been pretty easy to get a shot done, but this latest round, they really upped the criteria, there has to be no shadows whatsoever and we…
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Continue reading →: pen: Christmas is Cool Pen Season!Well every year, there are huge ups and downs, but in the end, I hope we are all grateful for what we have and have a plan for the future that makes it even better. To that end, I started to collect and use fountain pens and it has been…
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